7.5 tonne driver jobs in South Lanarkshire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. South Lanarkshire has 275 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,250 in freight transport by road, and 7.5 tonne work is run out of both.

Parcel and wholesale operations are where most C1 rounds sit. In South Lanarkshire the courier side alone is 0.24% of the 117,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in South Lanarkshire, median full-time pay was £39,260 a year in 2025. That is the whole local labour market rather than this job, and there is no published local figure for this job to set beside it.

UK Business Counts recorded 205 postal and courier activities workplaces in South Lanarkshire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 200 of them, 97.6%, employ under ten. C1 rounds run out of the few depots, not the long tail.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in South Lanarkshire, 85 are part time, 27.9% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so South Lanarkshire sits above it, 9th of 28 areas on this measure. Courier work carries more part-time hours than haulage, and a share around this level is the ordinary result of evening and weekend rounds.

Two further counts round out the South Lanarkshire picture: 1,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,775 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, South Lanarkshire ranks 5th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 275 in South Lanarkshire. Next to South Lanarkshire in that order sit Dundee City at 415 and Highland at 265.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, South Lanarkshire ranks 3rd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 205 in South Lanarkshire. Next to South Lanarkshire in that order sit North Lanarkshire at 290 and West Lothian at 205.

Every figure here counts what exists in South Lanarkshire: 275 courier jobs across 205 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.